New paper by @albavianasoto.bsky.social and @corneliussenf.bsky.social on forest reburns in southern Europe, published in Glob. Ecol. and Biogeography🌲🔥 Highlight: 30.1% of burned forest area experiencing multiple fire events since 1985. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

📖Published! Biodiversity enhances the positive effect of structural diversity on forest productivity and indirectly boosts productivity through structural diversity🌍 However, environmental stressors weaken the positive impact of structural diversity🐘 🔎 buff.ly/Uooe1rC

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows the long-term changes in tree species diversity across tropical forests in the Andes and Amazon. go.nature.com/45FPc1M 🌍 🧪

Can tropical rainforests 🌴🌎🇪🇨 regain their structural complexity in 40 years? Yes! Shown by @martinehbrecht.bsky.social et al. in their new article in @journalofecology.bsky.social www.reassembly.de/news/recover...

🌳🌴The various regions of the tropics differ in terms of the overall diversity of #tree species, but the relationship between environmental variables and local tree species richness is very similar across the different continents. #rainforest #biodiversity #forests

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⚠️ New paper out in Nature Ecology & Evolution 🌱 #Grasslands #SoilCarbon @natecoevo.nature.com

Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes. Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.

Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fascinating new paper by @andrewabraham.bsky.social on how salt starvation shapes the abundance of large animals in Africa - the thread below explains the science … 🌐

1/28 New preprint up, which I think is the best theoretical idea I've ever had. We asked a simple question: what are the costs of investment into non-reproductive somatic cells? Turns out these costs decrease with the *logarithm* of organism size! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Interestingly, this vegetation structure fits the ecological requirements of European forest plants - see our study Temperate forest plants are associated with heterogeneous semi-open canopy conditions shaped by large herbivores www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌸🌿🐎

Our best estimate of Europe's "forest" structure prior to the #megafauna #extinctions: Temperate Europe had high local #vegetation heterogeneity, on average 17% open vegetation, 21% closed #forest & 63% light #woodland ➡️https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000061 #TIBS2026

New paper - and final PhD chapter of @lisa-mandl.bsky.social - published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Using Landsat recovery and meteorological data, we show that thermal limitations constrain post-disturbance recovery success across forests of the European Alps: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

In C Europe, there is a push to align forest management more closely with natural processes, but is this "closer-to-nature" management able to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services? Great synthesis led by @anastritih.bsky.social with input from many leading experts! doi.org/10.1007/s407...

Der Klimawandel lässt Bäume früher austreiben, doch Hitze und Trockenheit bremsen das Wachstum. Besonders betroffen: Fichten, Weisstannen und Buchen. 🌳☀️https://www.wsl.ch/de/news/waelder-unter-klimastress-warum-baeume-trotz-fruehstart-weniger-wachsen #Klimawandel #Trockenstress

Worldwide, larger trees suffer most following extreme drought, which likewise seems to apply to European beech in response to the exceptional 2018/19 drought, see here: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo.... Great work by @jsrieder.bsky.social as part of her DFG-funded PhD project BEECHDECLINE.

Published!📖 Forest structural and functional diversity can attenuate forest productivity losses after harvesting and fires. In undisturbed forests, dominance boosts productivity via selection effects, but not after harvesting🌳🌲🌍 Read here:https://buff.ly/Gw5Hq6X

Published!📖 This study shows that choosing the most effective restoration strategy for tropical forests at scale depends equally if not more on economic and logistical than ecological constraints. Read more:https://buff.ly/MTipuln

Happy to share that our paper is out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 😄 Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨New paper!🚨 Models predict trees like beech will migrate north as climate warms, but rarely consider tree reproduction. Jessie shows these “refuges” are exactly where climate warming will disrupt seed production the most. They may not be such great climate refuges after all. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt. Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2

Global analysis shows that atmospheric dryness explains geographical patterns of tree canopy height and is projected to become more important in the coming decades: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌍 African #savanna science is heavily skewed: 46% of studies come from just 2% of #ProtectedAreas. Using the new ADSPA geodatabase, this work identifies five #bioclimatic groups and reveals major research gaps across underrepresented savannas. 🐘 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

Seed dispersal by 🦜🦇 underpins rainforest recovery. We want to understand more about its timing + traits driving recovery through obs, exp + genomic data. Ready to join the @reassemblynet.bsky.social team working in Ecuadorian Chocó? Pls apply to our 4-yr PhD position @sgn.one: tinyurl.com/2pkryc99

We found that when temps hit 30°C+, C3 plants start struggling - their carbon metabolism gets disrupted, they burn through sugar stores faster, and even their isotope signatures change. Meanwhile C4 plants? They're basically chilling like "this is fine" 😎 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How to measure seed longevity in storage when comparing accessions or species? We looked in detail at the most widely used measure (p50) and found out that it is... suboptimal at best. We highlight alternatives. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social

What is the effect of increasing disturbances in C European forests on insect diversity, and how does salvage logging modulate it? We found an overall positive response for both cleared and uncleared sites, with a stronger signal for taxonomic vs phylogenetic diversity doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

We just started setting up a new #BIOCOMP site in Budongo Forest, Uganda. Thank you @shamikroy.bsky.social and @sebseibold.bsky.social for the possibility to contribute!

In an upcoming study from our research group, Bhavya Palugudi, Ecosystems MSc student, and @ymalhi.bsky.social show that higher species richness does not necessarily translate to higher ecosystem energetic flows for tropical forests. Read more here www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/the-bio...

Africa’s forests have joined the Brazilian Amazon and Australian forests in becoming carbon sources rather than sinks. Around 2010 the previous storage of our carbon emissions flipped, mainly through deforestation and degradation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #climatechange #deforestation #Africa

🚨Paper alert🚨 Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪 If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

The Amazon Rainforest was shaped by people. Analysis of 262 trees species across 1,521 forest plots reveals that both pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples and European colonists enduringly influenced the forest’s relative abundance of trees. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/VAqY50XuP38

After several years of hard work two important papers from Berchtesgaden NP are finally out: 1) effects of microclimate on biodiversity change with macroclimate along elevation, but taxon specific - led by @lisageres.bsky.social doi: 10.1002/ecog.07984 with @rupertseidl.bsky.social and many more

Most major theories in ecology assume some sort of equilibrium, but only ~half of empirical tests acknowledge it & even fewer observed it in their system. Does this matter? How did the idea become so pervasive in ecology anyway? Find out in our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reassembly und 🌴Regenwald-Regeneration im Kontext der Klimakrise. Sehenswerte Vorlesungsreihe an der Uni Mainz @zukunftjgu.bsky.social Kurzbericht: www.reassembly.de/news/reassem... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIzT...

Check out our new insect decline paper. By analysing 36 yrs of German ground beetle distribution data, we show: - ~80% of species have declined, with significant declines for >50%. - The decline was similar across species traits and threatened status. doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... @consbiog.bsky.social

Check this out: the global biomass of mammals since 1850 just out in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery. Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action. 👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS

Our new perspective on what TLS can (& can't) do in forest research www.nature.com/articles/s41... - led by Eduardo Maeda w lots of great colleagues including @kimcalders.bsky.social @emilyrlines.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social @benjaminbrede.bsky.social (apols for any I don;t have @ for)

Increasing tree size across Amazonia 🧪🌐 #allometry www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

New paper in Nature Climate Change! What are the costs of increasing disturbances? Find out in this amazing contribution by @johannesmohr.bsky.social! Great to see this out and congrats Johannes on such a nice first PhD paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature

I forgot the link: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

Methods matter! BCI tree diversity partitioned by size class (5 cm DBH running window). CEGS (blue): flat, then a sudden drop ~40 cm. Chao 1: lower, different, and higher variance. CBR/alpha/theta (orange/purple/pink): ~50% increase on the way up to ~25 cm. But diversity should always decline.

Shannon's H, Simpson's D, and Pielou's J are useless in ecology. Fitting data with a compound abundance distribution based on the geometric series is a better way to quantify variation – and to estimate species richness. New paper in Ecology Letters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...